Posts by Matthew Louis

Employers may have read with some trepidation the outcome of a recent Supreme Court decision that prevents American colleges from considering race in admissions decisions. After all, the goals of affirmative action programs have been advanced in recent years by Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives now present in most organizations since President John F.…

Whatever your views on the conflicts over past decades in Iraq or Afghanistan, that fact is that they are over. But they came with great costs. Among them: Veteran unemployment – a terrible scourge 10 years ago when rates reached 12 percent or more, but less so now. Veteran under-employment – LinkedIn states that 76…

Despite all the recent chatter about hiring military community members, the real-time plug-and-play capabilities their underlying skills enable, and the financial rewards and goodwill that come with doing so, insufficient numbers of employers are taking advantage of this talent pool today. How so? 90% of small businesses, which comprise more than 99% of the companies…